Being Godless

Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Av Roy Llera Blanes, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

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Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-05-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt384 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Social Analysis
Antal sidor154
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785336287

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Introduction: Godless People, Doubt, and AtheismRuy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-StjepanovicChapter 1. Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary BritainLois LeeChapter 2. Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist MaterialismJacob Copeman and Johannes QuackChapter 3. Atheist Political Cultures in Independent AngolaRuy Llera Blanes and Abel PaxeChapter 4. Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and DoubtPaul-François Tremlett and Fang-Long ShihChapter 5. Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for AnthropologySonja LuehrmannChapter 6. Confessional AnthropologyGalina Oustinova-StjepanovicChapter 7. On Atheism and Non-religion: An AfterwordMatthew EngelkeBibliograpghyIndex

“This [insightful volume] is a much-needed collection of multiple explanations of lived atheisms and non-religion from different settings…[It] will attract anthropologists and the general reader alike.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)“The individual chapters and the introduction all contribute to advancing and nuancing existing theories of ‘non-religion’, religious disaffiliation, atheism, etc., and is, on the whole rather innovative, and well written.” • Anthropological Notebooks“The volume excels at making clear the importance of geographic context in considering non-religion and society while simultaneously presenting research that raises big questions about contemporary non-religion…a sound contribution to the study of non-religion.” • Reading Religion